Tirana Hassan

#Darfur #Sudan: UN Human Rights chief raise alarm at situation in & around besieged Al-Fasher.

@kajakallas.bsky.social @hadjalahbib.bsky.social: EU should mobilize urgent action to protect civilians from ethnically-driven attacks, hold those responsible to account.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Egypt: Experts urge release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah and others silenced under repressive national security laws GENEVA – A group of independent human rights experts* today urged the Government of Egypt to end the unlawful and arbitrary detention of activist and blogger, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, and release him witho...

Four UN human rights experts urged Egypt to end the unlawful and arbitrary detention of activist and blogger, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, and release him without further delay. His mother is on hunger strike and was hospitalized this week. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Laila Soueif, #FreeAlaa Abdel Fattah's mother, is in hospital on day 151 of her hunger strike.

Time is running out.

Alaa, a #British citizen, should be released from prison in #Egypt urgently.

My @hrw.org colleague Yasmine Ahmed visited Laila in hospital:
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/27/w...

Damage Worsens from US Foreign Assistance Cuts The consequences of the Trump administration’s broad-based cuts to United States foreign assistance continue to grow, and the magnitude of the damage is breathtaking.

The consequences of the Trump administration’s broad-based cuts to United States foreign assistance continue to grow, and the magnitude of the damage is breathtaking. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

Women are not merely casualties of conflict; they are essential to its resolution - www.atlantik-bruecke.org/en/beyond-vi... Grateful to @tiranahassan.bsky.social for her leadership at Munich Security Conference, which can always do better to center women in its global discourse. #MSC2025 @hrw.org

Lorsque les gouvernements font preuve d'un 'deux poids deux mesures' vis-à-vis des droits humains, ils sapent les institutions des droits humains et leur légitimité.

@tiranahassan.bsky.social, directrice exécutive de HRW, s'exprime lors du lancement du rapport mondial 2025 de HRW.

2024 witnessed ‘absolute failure’ of west to lead fight for human rights, says watchdog Leading democracies have stood by while allies have committed atrocities or supported perpetrators, Human Rights Watch chief says ahead of annual World Report

@hrw.org's @tiranahassan.bsky.social says the past year has marked the “absolute failure” of western democracies as champions of human rights around the world - especially in #Gaza #Sudan & elsewhere.

Read @julianborger.bsky.social of @theguardian.com on HRW's World Report 2025 here.

Human Rights Watch has accused Israeli authorities of deliberately committing the crime of extermination as well as ‘acts of genocide’ in Gaza. www.ft.com/content/b637...

YouTube video by Human Rights Watch Sexual Slavery in Sudan

Hear from survivors of war crimes & potential crimes against humanity committed as part of attacks in South Kordofan during which RSF killed, raped, injured dozens of civilians, and looting & destroying homes that displaced 10s of thousands www.hrw.org/news/2024/12... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj8P...

Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinian civilians in Gaza of adequate access to water since October 2023, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths and thus committing the crime...

The Israeli govt has deliberately denied Palestinians in Gaza the bare minimum water needed to survive. This policy of deprivation, resulting in thousands of deaths,
is nothing short of the crime against humanity of extermination, and an act of genocide. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

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